Today is Good Friday, the start of the Easter weekend. Around Philadelphia, public and parochial schools are closed as are local and state courts, libraries, city agencies and recreation centers. Some banks have decided to stay open, federal courts are open and PA state liquor stores are open today.

Blasius Chocolate is open for business, just in time for Easter. Philadelphia moved to shut down the Kensington chocolatier in a dispute over non-payment of taxes. Yesterday, Blasius owner Philip Kerwick made a partial payment of Use and Occupancy taxes to the city – just enough to re-open his doors to the thousands who shop there this time every year.

The armored car heist on Frankford Avenue is believed to be connected to a similar heist in October. Two masked gunmen got away with $105,000 from a Garda armored truck outside the TD Bank in Mayfair. Investigators see similarities between this and a $300,000 robbery from an armored truck at a Wells Fargo Bank on Frankford Avenue just over a mile away.

Sports
Tonight the Phillies begin a road trip in Colorado with the Rockies.

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